ALI abandons its death penalty work
I’m reading today’s NYT piece on the ALI’s withdrawal from the legal debate surrounding the death penalty and listening to David Kitt’s cover of “Teenage Riot.” It occurs to me that, for their loud adherence to a position that (granted) seems at first like it ought to be true even in the face of ever-accumulating evidence that it is not, those who insist that capital punishment is a good and reasonable public policy are an awful lot like those who insist that Sonic Youth have ever recorded more than one really good song.
The Most Read Passage in White Noise
You know the one. So this is about that:
Several days later Murray asked me about a story known as the most read passage in White Noise. We turned 12 pages into the book, around where Delillo’s developing Murray’s character. There were cereal boxes and corduroy. Something had happened with a woman in Detroit. Soon the allusions started coming to mind. THE MOST READ PASSAGE IN WHITE NOISE. read on
Status
- Wu Tang-Beatles mashup http://is.gd/7YZXd: Less faithful than the Grey Album, but it samples You Know My Name (Look Up the Number). So, ***½ 2 hrs ago
Asides
- Just a note to say I've added a Zipcar affiliate link to my list. If you're signing up, using my link will give each of us $25. #
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This is good. David Foster Wallace, writing for Harper's in 2001, covers the Usage Wars and standard written English, in (of course) his own idiolect (which idiolect1 (q.v. Infinite Jest) makes the hard parts go down easier). Wallace was a walking liberal arts education. #
- In the context of the below, here's a small patch for Mark Grabanski's amazing "Clean Calendar" — a lightweight, pop-up calendar for selecting dates on web forms. My edits forbid users from selecting dates in the past. #
- Weekend to the Winds is a new project I'm working on for a final project in a (cross-registered) computer science class. Watch this space. #
